The 2017 Ride Engine Metal Slider Bar is a spreader bar, rope and pad system that connects directly with the rider’s chicken loop. This 2017 Ride Engine Metal Slider Bar setup is totally unique and provides a smooth and full range of motion, allowing the harness’s lumbar lock technology to work its magic while rider changes angles of attack, carves upwind, rides toeside and slashes waves. Conventional kiteboarding harnesses have a major flaw in how they function, and the Armor harness solves it exceptionally well. Riders are often forced to rotate their harnesses from side to side to get pull from the proper angle when carving upwind, riding toeside or catching waves.